Improvement in setting-down machines for the manufacture of tinware



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LESTER SMITH, OF SOUTHINGTON, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SETTING-DOWN MACHINES FOR THE MANUFACTURE 0F TINWARE.

Spe/.'iicmion forming part of Letters Patent No. 5,083, dated April 24, 1847.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LESTER SMITH, of Southington, in the county of Hartford and Stateof Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Setting-Down Machines for the Manufacture of Tin, Brass, and Copper Vare, 85e.; and I do hereby declare that the which stands in a vertical position) is turned without the shoulder near the outside, it being left straight and smooth, and on this-roller is placed a movable gage, A, 'to which is attached a screw, and by turning said screw and putting a wheel ot'suitable thickness on the upper shaft the machine is easily adjustedV to any required Work or width of seam.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by'Letters Patent, is-

The application of a movable gage, in combination with two or more different thicknesses of wheels to be' attached to the common setting-down machine, and by shifting the wheels or rollers and moving the gage the machine is readily adj usted to any requiredwidth ofseam.

LESTER SMITH.

Witnesses: Y

` DANIEL NEWTON,

NATHAN E. STANNARD. 

